Lucy wants to explore the world and do something daring and difficult. But people laugh at her when she hatches a plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

So her family rallies round to help prepare for the journey, loading her boat with supplies for 3,000 miles of rowing. Her school friends follow her from afar, learning about the ocean, its wildlife, and pollution.

Alone at sea, Lucy faces seasickness, storms, and a very sore bottom, not to mention close encounters with ships and a humpback whale. Yet there are also the joys of wandering seabirds, shooting stars, and magical sunsets as she finds she is capable of more than she ever imagined.

Step aboard and join Lucy on her life-changing adventure to become the girl who rowed the ocean.

Author Biography:

Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean, and walked a lap of the M25—one of his pioneering micro-adventures.

He is the best-selling author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Nonfiction.

He has written eight books for Eye, including the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 7-12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelized version of his transatlantic crossing.

An oceangoing follow-up to The Boy Who Biked the World, the three parts of which have together sold more than 100,000 copies. Both works are fictionalized versions of the author’s own real-life adventures. 

Alastair Humphreys has rowed the Atlantic and cycled around the planet. A National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, he is the best-selling author of 14 books, including The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy and Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Nonfiction. He is a qualified teacher, and The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean leans heavily on the KS2 syllabus.